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NavSource Online:Motor Gunboat/Patrol Gunboat Photo Archive

Contributed by Mike Molinski

Grand Rapids (PG-98)

Tacoma Class Motor Gunboat:

The second Grand Rapids was laid down at Tacoma Boatbuilding Co., Tacoma, WA

4 April 1970Tacoma, WAPhoto caption: NAVY GUNBOAT LAUNCH - The Grand Rapids, named for the Michigan city, was launched in a christening ceremony Saturday. Susan Ford, 12, daughter of the Michigan congressman Gerald Ford, smashed the bottle of bubbly to send the boat on its way. The boat is the 11th of a series of 12 to be built by Tacoma Boat Building Co.Associated Press wirephoto